Metal. 1930-s, Germany. As we know, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote all his works by hand in notebooks, so the typewriter is primarily associated with a remarkable person of O. Bokshanskaya, the writer’s sister-in-law, who worked for many years as Nemirovicha-Danchenko’s secretary and became the prototype of Polyxena Toropetzkaya from “A Theatrical Novel”.